July 12, 2011

Just a thought for those of you that need to use a text, binary compare tool here and there.

Today I had to waste some time and figure out what text, binary, picture, etc compare tool was the best. I Compared a handful of tools I used in the past and some I haven’t used. gVIM Diff, WinMerge, Beyond Compare, Perforce, and DiffMerge. I decided that a few of my needs was to do a diff on the fly without creating a file, show special characters, syntax highlighting, merging, line numbering, pic split view, search within both files, SVN integration, etc. I ended up going with Beyond Comapre since we have a corp license and kep WinMerge because it was a very close second and has integration to TortoiseSVN which I use as well.